We are only in the second week of summer 2015-16, and demand in Queensland has already begun to heat up, hitting 8507MW at 3:05pm this afternoon after another hot and humid day across the sunshine state. This marks the first time this summer that demand in Queensland has risen above the 8500MW mark. Entrants of our annual demand forecast competition will find these events particularly interesting as today’s peak demand might be a sign that, as expected, Queensland could reach a new all-time demand record above 9000MW at some point further into summer.
The temperature in Sydney also simmered today peaking at 35°C while demand in New South Wales hit a high of 11018MW at 3:50pm this afternoon.
A screenshot from NEM-Watch at 3:50pm on Friday the 11th of December 2015.
Dan Lee first started at Global-Roam in June 2013. He has departed (and returned) for a couple of stints overseas in that time, but rejoined our team permanently in late 2019.
More recently, Dan's focus has been on growing his understanding of the market and developing his analytical capabilities. He is currently enrolled in the Master of Sustainable Energy program at the University of Queensland.
We’re taking a much, much deeper dive into generator performance at high temperatures (for all DUIDs operational across the NEM) to see how each one of them, individually, is affected by high temperatures. Guess which one this “mystery DUID” is and we’d look forward to providing some form of prize…
AEMO’s demand forecasts for Saturday 6th January 2017 were about 500MW below what the mark turned out to be. It appears that this is due (at least in part) due to difficulties in forecasting intermittent generation which acts to reduce “Scheduled Demand”.
With Queensland temperatures (even at the Brisbane airport) exceeding 40 degrees Celcius today, the electricity demand was also high – though still below the all-time record.
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